Discussion: Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Discussion: Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Discussion: Mood and Anxiety Disorders

ORDER NOW FOR AN ORIGINAL PAPER ASSIGNMENT : Discussion: Mood and Anxiety Disorders

In this unit, you learned about mood and anxiety disorders. For this assignment, you will use the databases within the CSU Online Library to select an article that focuses on these disorders. The article must be from a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal. Please contact the library team if you need assistance locating an article in the library’s databases.

After selecting your article, you will write a two-page paper that discusses what the article was about and includes your critique of the article. Your article critique must address the elements below:

• Discuss the genetic, neurobiological, social, and psychological factors that contribute to the mood disorders.

• Describe the symptoms, the diagnostic criteria, and epidemiology of mood disorders.

• Identify the medication and psychological treatments of mood disorders.

• Describe the clinical features of the anxiety disorders.

• Describe treatment approaches that are common across the anxiety disorders, and explain how treatment approaches are modified for the specific anxiety disorders.

• Describe how the anxiety disorders tend to co-occur with each other, and identify how gender and culture influence the prevalence of anxiety.

Be sure to incorporate material from your textbook, and explain how your selected article relates to the information covered in this unit. If necessary, you may use other scholarly sources to support your critique.

Your critique must be at least two pages in length. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. Please be sure to cite any outside sources, and format your paper in accordance with proper APA formatting.

Course Textbook

Kring, A. M., Johnson, S. L., Davison, G. C., & Neale, J. M. (2016). Abnormal psychology: The science and treatment of psychological disorders (13th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

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